Shia Muslims in Bahrain have held congregational prayers in the tiny Persian Gulf country nearly a month after clergymen declared a pause to the religious ritual in protest at the ruling Al Khalifah regime's heavy-handed crackdown against Bahraini Shais.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Jerusalem, Israel, the occupied West Bank, and Gaza Strip attended prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque on the second Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, despite widespread measures taken by Israel against Palestinian freedom of movement across the occupied territory.

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